THE TRAINING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1160295 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TASDF

The advancement of education and the development of skills for people in the north of England who want to improve their skills and employment through the provision of vocational, numeracy and literacy skills training frameworks and any other charitable causes as may from time to time be determined.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS FOR PEOPLE IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND WHO WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL, NUMERACY AND LITERACY SKILLS TRAINING FRAMEWORKS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Oldham, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated £32,600 in income from training services against expenses of £31,735, resulting in a small surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £36,968 at the end of the period, with no stated reserves policy target to compare against.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 18/11/2024, 292 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR DAVID NEEDHAM PHDchair
• DAVID MACDOUGALL
• Jayne Hilton
• Kevin Kennedy

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING.

• SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING income £31k
• LEARN N GROW income £143k
• NORTHERN LEARNING TRUST income £890k
• TRAINING LINK income £91k
• THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION income £20.4m
• SIGNIFICANCE income £53k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.